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title: A Dengue fever outbreak in 2016 killed 20 patients. — Burkina Faso · tree and pragmatics
description: A Dengue fever outbreak in 2016 killed 20 patients. Who acts: fever outbreak. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Burkina Faso» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Burkina Faso, sentence 423

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From Wikipedia, [«Burkina Faso»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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A Dengue fever outbreak in 2016 killed 20 patients.

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**Who acts:** fever outbreak · **What happens:** kill · **To what, where:** 20 patients

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Burkina Faso». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fever outbreak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Burkina_Faso:423
# text = A Dengue fever outbreak in 2016 killed 20 patients.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Dengue	dengue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	outbreak	outbreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past | a fever outbreak in 2016 | 20 patients |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Burkina Faso», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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